“Update 12/7/10: The project duration has been extended. The report is expected to be issued in February 2011.”

That’s it. No reasons given.

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LMW COMMENT …

I’ll believe it when I see it.

The NAS has treated the public in a totally disparaging arrogant manner. Promising to be open and transparent, they have been precisely the opposite. Promising to consider input, they have never sought any, and have had few open sessions when anyone could offer any. Committed to a deadline, they ignore it. Asked about when the report will be issued, they first give a date they do not meet and then don’t even bother to answer the question. Now they give a new date, without giving any reason for the delay.

Who are we to think we deserve more?

The American taxpayers, who are funding this study, are treated without any consideration, as the enemies, which I guess we have to believe we are. The NAS is acting like it is totally under the thumb of its sponsor the FBI. How can anyone ever believe they will render an independent report? It seems far more likely they will say only what the FBI approves or directs. $1,000,000 down the drain!

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The FBI’s case against Dr. Ivins is clearly bogus: no evidence, no witnesses, an impossible timeline, science that proves innocence instead of guilt. So what really happened? And why doesn’t the FBI offer America a credible story?

I can imagine only 3 possible “actual” scenarios …

The FBI has more evidence against Dr. Ivins but is, for some undisclosed reason, withholding that evidence … POSSIBLE BUT NOT SO LIKELY

The FBI, despite the most expensive and extensive investigation in its history, has not solved the case and has no idea who prepared and mailed the anthrax letters that killed 5 Americans in 2001 … EVEN LESS LIKELY

The FBI knows who did it (not Dr. Ivins) but is covering up the actual perpetrators, for undisclosed reasons … THE MOST LIKELY SCENARIO

The “fictional” scenario in my novel CASE CLOSED has been judged by many readers, including a highly respected official in the U.S. Intelligence Community, as perhaps more plausible than the FBI’s unproven assertions regarding Dr. Ivins.